Still in Utah

Utah with its recent memories… In the last 5 months Pop and I, along with some of our family, have made 3 trips to the University of Utah. Salt Lake is a pretty town, it sits up against the mountains. The mountains make a lovely backdrop for the town. The reason I say some of our family is because the children don’ think they can trust Pop and I to remember all the details the doctor says, so some of them go along (I wish they would all think they have to go) :-) I’ll tell you a secret…when we get home the children don’t always remember what was said…

Talk about enjoyment, I can’t explain how much I enjoyed those trips with our (smart) daughters :-) One time our granddaughter went along. On all the trips we made we went shopping. Since we stayed 2 nights and the Doctor didn’t take all the time, we had time to shop, and of course at my favorite stores. My daughter likes antiques so of we stopped at several antique stores, and I like scrapbook stores so we stopped there, and since we all like to eat, we stopped to eat. Our husbands were very patient while we shopped.

The first time down there we stop at a craft store. It was Thanksgiving time and since the world likes to call it “Turkey Day”, there were lots of ceramic turkeys and lots of slogans to go with it. One big plate in the shape of a turkey had the words “Gobble till you wobble” I don’t really think a Christian should gobble till they wobble, but we defiantly didn’t go hungry while at Salt Lake. So we said we “shopped till we dropped” and “gobbled till we wobbled.” When you have extra time on your hands and you get tired you can act pretty silly.

The first time, daughter #4, Laurie and her DH took us. The second time we drove and daughter #5 Valerie and our grandaughter Elsie went with us. The third time Laurie and her DH took us and Valerie went along also. The last time Laurie and I worked Sudoko puzzles and I needed a pencil so when we stopped at a dollar store and my son-in-law went in for snacks, I decided to go in. He went in first so as he was comming out I asked him if seen any pencils, he told me where they were but I couldn’t find them there. I finally found them and as I was going to the car I met him coming back in. He kind a laughed as he told me he thought I had said “pretzels” We all had a good laugh about that, but let me tell you something folks, it’s worse than that now….

I can even get after Pop and he stays happy as a lark because he can’t understand a word I say. :-( I know what I want to say, but when it comes out it sounds so funny that sometimes we cry, but we’re usually able to laugh. Like “husband” is now “hubin” Pop says he likes being my “hubin” O, dear life is strange. :-) When it bothers me the most is when the children have to work so hard to understand me.

Will we ever get through Utah? I will keep going, It seem like my thoughts wonder around more when we first start a trip, I can't talk so I think.

Utah has huge grain elevators and as we pass 50 or 60 of them that are built together, Pop says (as he usually does) “I wonder what Jim Bridger would think if he could see these grain elevators?” “He told Brigham Young that he could eat all the wheat this valley could produce” I say, you’d better get busy Jim Bridger (mountain man) instead of spending all your time leading wagon trains from Missouri to Oregon. He didn’t do such a good job with the Donner Party. Some of them starved to death.
As we go on we see exits to Wolf Mt, Powder Mt, and Mt. Zion and a sign says Devils Slide up ahead. I call it Jacobs Ladder.

I wonder why everything ruggedly beautiful gets a name like Devil’s slide, Devil’s Gate, Hell’s Canyon, Devil’s Punch Bowl, Devil’s Churn, or Hell’s Gate. God created all this beauty. Devils slide is 2 sets of rock about 100 feet apart, with no other rocks close. The rocks are gigantic slabs of rock that look like they are standing on edge, with smaller rocky mountain side between. They go up the mountainside looking like a giant slide.

In order to drive to PA we will travel across 10 states but I promise to not take so much time in each state. It will take seven days because we are going to stop in Oklahoma to see daughter #3. (Gwen and her DH, Henry)

We now follow I-84 till we turn east on I-80, After that it is about 29 miles and we will be in Wyoming. It is around 4pm now. We ought to be able to make it to Green River, WY for the night.

Till next time............

“We trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all man.” I Timothy 4:10

Usually I know what I want, but I don’t what I need. Lord, it’s so good that you know what I need. You, bless me with plenty of my needs and some of my wants. Thank you for what You allow me to have. Thank You Lord